Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-27

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San Francisco American.
" ISDOM FROM BEECHER.
Every farm should have good farm
er.
The man never has good luck who
has bad wife.
The masses against the classes the
world over.
A man who does not love praise is
not full man.
A man must ask leave of his stomach
to be happy man.
1t takes longer for man to find out
man than any other creature that is
made.
Flowers are the sweetest things that
God ever made and forgot to put a
soul into.
A man without self-restraint is like
barrel without hoops, and tumbles
to pieces.
Whoever makes home seem to the
young dearer and more happy is pub
lie benefactor.
That cannot be a healthy condition
in which few prosper and the great
mass are drudges.
A proud man is seldom a greatful
man. for he never thinks he gets as
much as he deserves.
The greatest event in a hens life is
made up of an egg and a cackle. But
Eagles never cackle.
One of the original tendencies of
the human mind, fundamental and
universal, is the love of other peoples
private affairs.
This is good world to sin in, but,
so far as men are concerned, it is a
very hard world to repent in. It is a
bitter world, it is a cruel world.
PINCH1NG BACK.
Little is to be gained by pinching Gu
cumber vines back during the growing
season. We always try to avoid any
mutilation of the foliage, as sure cause
of lessened yield. Keep the vines grow
ing thrifty and the bugs at bay.
Seed production is exhaustive to bring
forth green cucumbe1s does not cost
greater effort than the growth foliage.
Hence the sspickles'' should be gathered
in proper time and none left on to ripen
its seed. Rather cut, not break Or tear
them off.
Cucumbers for ':pickles'' may be
planted at any time this month. Warm
weather will make them grow rapidly
and away from the bugs. Green Clust-
er is a good sort for this purpose; very
prolific of medium-sized pickles. For
large ones or for cucumber salad we
prefer the Long Green.
The large English frame variet ties,
do not find much favor with
the American gardeners, or with
the consuming public. We have some
times grown them of nearly two feet IN
length. For that sort of pickles they
are excellent, as they have but very few
seeds; but the general gardener will con-
sidered them "more curious than useful
for his purposes.
The early melon crop may be hasten
ed day or two by pinching back the
ends of each main vine, in order to in
duce them to throw out the laterals, on
which the '.fruit'' is borne.-Orchard
and Garden. a..
= ONE POUND OR FOUR POUNDS. {
The possibilities of a COW for butter
making are astonishing. Years ago
the COW that would make one pound a
day was considered good COW. Now
we hear that the famous Holstein, Cloth
Tide, since the New York dairy show,
in which she came off first best, has
been tested again, and gave, in seven
days, 665 pounds "A ounces, of milk,
which made 20 pounds 24 ounces of
butter. This was an average of over
IS pounds of milk and, over 4 pounds
of butter, daily.
This great milk machine ate, daily,
about II pounds of grain, consisting Of
two parts of corn meal, two parts
wheat bran. one part ground oats,
with little oil meal. She had good
pasture and pure water. We can see
that to accomplish such marvellous
results her digestive, assimilative and
milk secretive organs must be large,
active, powerful. To possess such or
gans she must have descended from q
long line of ancestors which were bred
expressly to create such organs; in
other words, she belongsssto great
milk breed, is milk-making machine
Of the most approved kind. The milk
and butter are contained in the food
which she consumes, and she has d
capacity for eating largo quantity Of
such food and for making the most Of
h-American Rurai Home. + -@.--.
DRY WEATHER FEED FOR cArr1E /
The various parts Of the country,
where the dry weather, hasbs.n almost
continuous Tor the past M months, 1
part OF the pasturss are now plowed
p and planted with drilled IS soxsd